My Sister 's Keeper : A Film About A Couple Whose Lives

Communication in the healthcare field may be a little different for some people. Healthcare requires the communication to have a purpose, and that purpose is revolved around a person’s needs. A patient with good staff communication during

The relationship between Anne and her sister Kate is unconditionally strong. Anne loves her sister dearly and would do anything for her. In the film, there was a scene that displayed Anna and Kates strong relationship. When Kate was sick in bed, she accidently peed on herself and Anne came and told her it was alright as she changed the padding on the bed and wiped her down. Not only was Anna there for Kate physically but she was mentally. When Kate’s boyfriend Troy passed away she was depressed and suicidal. Anne was there to calm her down and keep her from hurting herself when she tried to overdose on medication. The bond between Anna and her sister was unbreakable. Anne and her mom had a good relationship in the beginning until Anna’s lawyer served her the papers. As soon as her mom found out that Anna wasn’t going to

“My Sister`s Keeper,” explores the moral, practical and emotional complications of putting one human being in pain or in danger for the wellbeing of another. There are many different kinds of ethical problems that Anna, as the “designer baby,” is the role she plays in her family, loyalty, illness, and medical ethics, and rights. Anna believes that her only role is to be a donor for Kate. Therefore, she wants to sue her parents for rights of her own body.

My Sister’s Keeper is about a family who conceives a child strictly for the use as bone marrow donor for her gravely ill older sister. Kate is diagnosed with Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia at the age of two. As their doctor tells them of their options, he asks Sara and Brian, the parents, have they thought about

My Sister's Keeper is the story of Anna Fitzgerald, who by the age of thirteen has undergone many blood transfusions, numerous surgeries, and multiple bone marrow transplants. “Most babies are accidents, not me. I was engineered, born to save my sister’s life.” At the beginning of the movie Anna explains that she as conceived to be a donor for her sister, Kate. Kate is a 16 year old with renal failure due to a very rare form of leukemia. The girls' parents expect Anna to donate her kidney to help her sister. Instead of donating the kidney, Anna files a lawsuit against her parents for the rights of her own body so that she could not be forced into the surgery against her will. This causes mixed reactions between Anna’s parents, Brain

The movie “My sisters keeper” is about 13 year-old Anna, who sues her parents for medical emancipation when she is expected to donate a kidney to her sister Kate, who has leukemia. This essay will focus on three events in Anna’s life, and discuss how each event in the characters life had an affect on her physical, psychosocial and cognitive development. The events that will be discussed are: how being brought into the world to save Kate affected Anna’s psychosocial development, how having to undergo many surgeries at a very young age affected Anna’s physical development, and also how Anna’s cognitive development was affected by her sisters sickness and death.

In recent times, in the field of health communication, a shift in beliefs has become apparent. Many feel that the physician-centered approach is no longer the best way to manage the interaction between patients and doctors. A new collaborative approach has been adopted by many. This collaborative approach is more of a partnership between the patient and doctor. More communicating by the patient, and more listening by the doctor. When the doctor and patient speak to one another, they speak to each other as peers sharing ideas,

Communication plays a vital role in the healthcare setting, as the relationship with the healthcare professional sets the tone of the care experience and has a powerful impact on patient satisfaction. It is “the shared process in which messages are sent and received between two or more people which are made up of a sender, receiver, and message in a particular context” (cite, date). This essay highlights the importance of, and some common barriers to, effective communication in the healthcare setting. It involves many interpersonal skills such as effective observation, questioning and listening, giving feedback, recognizing and removing barriers.

My Sister's Keeper tells the story of 13-year-old Anna, who litigates her parents for medical emancipation when she is expected to donate a kidney to her sister Kate, who is dying from leukemia. The story takes place in Providence, Rhode Island in 2004. Anna Fitzgerald's older sister, Kate, suffers from acute promyelocytic leukemia, a blood and bone marrow cancer. Anna was conceived as a savior sibling, in order to harvest blood from her umbilical cord to use in treatments to help save Kate's life. Although the treatment was initially successful, Kate relapsed; ever since, Anna, the only compatible family member, has been used as a donor for any other bodily substance needed to treat Kate, who continues to swing between remission and

Throughout the movie, “My Sister’s Keeper”, there are many events that occur that leave the audience questioning the actions of the characters. Kate, who is born with a rare case of Leukemia, is the recipient of her genetically engineered sister, Anna’s bodily donations. Until Anna goes to a lawyer in hopes to receive medical emancipation, her mother does not see what is wrong with the concept of consenting to Anna’s operations in order to help her oldest daughter. With a combination of Kant’s deontology and the use of his categorical imperative test, perhaps Sara, Kate’s mother, could have realized her mistakes long ago. Unfortunately, like many moral dilemmas, Sara is too invested in the well-being of her cancer stricken daughter and is unable to see how she is hurting her youngest daughter.

Patient provider relationships play a pivotal role in the healthcare process. This relationship helps to bridge the gap between ailments of the patient and the diagnosis and care of the provider. The need for this relationship and its propensity to create the catalyst for patients need to be fulfilled is second only to the medical knowledge of the provider and the patient 's willingness to get better. As we have moved from a biomedical perspective to a biopsychosocial perspective the relationship between provider and patient has changed from physician centered modes of communication to more of a patient centered style of communication. And with the change of view we find that a strong and cohesive bond between patient and provider is the key to the advancement and overall quality of care for the patient. According to The Impact of Patient-Centered Care on Outcomes a patient centered approach to care has a correlation to a better healthcare outcome. Focusing on the patient increases compliance of the patient.

Communication, in healthcare, is a multidimensional concept that involves patients, family members, and a health care team. There is a direct correlation with communication, improving a patient's well being, and quality of care. Adequate communication among physicians and their patients is an actively growing research topic. Results supplied by such studies have provided effective recommendations for oncologists and their team. These recommendations include the patient-physician relationship, how physicians utilize medical information, how physicians deal with patient emotions, physician self-management, and educational conferences designed to sharpen communication. Communication is important during each phase of cancer care.

If you [Kate] had never gotten sick, I wouldn’t be here would I…” (My Sister’s Keeper 176). Outraged at their youngest daughter’s behavior, Anna’s parents attempt to make her feel guilty by telling her that she is “killing” her sister by refusing to be Kate’s donor. With the help of her lawyer, Campbell Alexander, Anna is awarded medical emancipation. Right after the trial, Campbell and Anna get into an automobile accident, where Anna dies from a traumatic brain injury.

Within the first few pages of My Sisters Keeper, you are given the idea that both Kate and Anna have to overcome many life restrictions as Kate makes Anna, sue their parents to free the rights of her own body, just so Kate can die. “When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself… is that what love’s like?” shows us how Kate’s life is so restricted by promyelocytic leukemia, that she is willing to end it. Jodi Picoult uses this quote to help show us how life has may restrictions. Kate has a huge restriction in her life which is her Leukemia, however, Anna also has a huge restiction in her life as she has to always be donating bone marrow to her sick sister. At the end of the novel, you see that Kate’s restictions is life push her too far and she decides to take the way out to end her life. This however makes Anna’s life restrictions free up as she no longer has to donate bone marrow or a kidney and can start to live her life more freely without the restriction of keeping safe to donate bone

Imagine being born just so you can give up your cells and organs to your sister with Leukemia. That is the life of Anna Fitzgerald, and her sister Kate. The book I read is titled “My Sister's Keeper”, the title is the same for the movie. Personally, the movie was better for me because I like being able to see things visually and in detail. The way the book explained the characters I was really able to imagine them in my head and in the movie it wasn't so much easier to understand what was going on